Controls

Player Settings & Controls

Open Voice Settings from the Among Us Options menu. On desktop, you can also press F10. These settings are local: they change your own microphone, playback, controls, and HUD without changing the host's lobby rules.

On a new install, Perfect Comms first opens a guided setup for audio devices and tests, talk controls (including whether keybinds remain active while chat is open), a live HUD layout preview, and a final review. You can run it again at any time from Advanced > First-Time Setup.

The guided HUD choices are Top Middle, Middle Right, Middle Left, Compact, Top Left, Top Right, Left Stack, Right Stack, Bottom Center, and Minimal.

Audio tab

Setting	Default	What it controls
Mic Volume	100%	How loudly your microphone is sent to other players.
Mic Sensitivity	1.00	How easily quiet speech is detected. Higher values pick up quieter audio.
Speaker Volume	100%	Overall Perfect Comms voice volume you hear.
Mic Mode	Open Mic	Choose voice activation or hold-to-talk.
Noise Suppression	On	Cleans outgoing microphone noise on Windows desktop builds.
Stronger Noise Suppression	Off	Uses the strongest WebRTC noise suppression level on Windows desktop builds. It only applies while Noise Suppression is on and may make quiet speech sound less natural.
Echo Cancellation	On	Reduces speaker audio feeding back into your microphone on Windows desktop builds.
Voice Falloff Softness	30%	Keeps voices clearer through more of the host's allowed range, then fades near the edge. It never extends that range.
Start Muted	Off	Starts each voice session with your microphone muted.
Start Deafened	Off	Starts each voice session with playback muted and microphone transmission paused until you undeafen.

Mic and speaker volume range from 10% to 200%. Mic Sensitivity ranges from 0.25 to 2.00, and Voice Falloff Softness ranges from 0% to 100%.

Devices tab

• Microphone selects the recording device. Default follows the system input device.
• Speaker selects the voice playback device on Windows. Default follows the system output device.
• Android playback follows the current Android audio route, so it does not show a separate Speaker selector.
• Device rows show the full selected name and keep a saved device visible if it is temporarily unavailable.
• Hear Your Microphone plays the selected microphone through your selected speaker or current Android output so you can check how you actually sound. Headphones are recommended to prevent feedback.
• Delayed Playback adds a one-second delay to that microphone test, letting you speak first and listen back afterward. The test stops automatically when you leave the Devices tab or close Voice Settings.

The guided setup also provides an optional live microphone meter, mic test, and output test.

Keybinds tab (desktop)

The Android build uses touch controls and does not show this keyboard tab. On desktop, every binding can use a keyboard key, mouse button, exact modifier, or modifier chord. Select a binding and press the new key or chord; clear it to leave the action unbound.

Action	Default
Open voice menu	F10
Open host voice settings	F11
Mute / unmute mic	Shift+M
Push to Mute	Unbound
Push to talk (hold)	C
Team radio (hold)	V
Cycle team radio channel	G
Toggle open mic / push to talk	Unbound
Toggle deafen	Shift+N
Player volumes	Shift+B
Alive louder / dead quieter (hold)	Unbound
Alive quieter / dead louder (hold)	Unbound
Refresh voice connection	F7

Perfect Comms blocks all desktop voice keybinds while chat is open by default, preventing a typing key from also muting, transmitting, or opening a voice panel. Enable Allow Keybinds While Chat Is Open to keep every Perfect Comms shortcut active while typing. Settings panels, active key rebinding, and application focus loss always suppress keybinds regardless of this setting.

Desktop Push To Talk keeps the selected capture stream ready while a voice session is connected, but discards samples before encoding or transmission until the binding is held. This removes hardware-start delay; the operating system can show the microphone as in use between presses.

The settings icon beside either alive/dead focus binding expands that binding's independent Alive Players and Dead Players levels:

• Alive louder / dead quieter: 200% alive and 50% dead by default.
• Alive quieter / dead louder: 50% alive and 200% dead by default.

These profiles apply only while held. Releasing restores both groups to 100%; holding both focus bindings at once is neutral. All four expanded sliders range from 0% to 200%; 0% is shown as None.

Exact left/right modifiers are supported. Press and release a modifier to bind it alone, or hold it while pressing another key to create a chord. If a plain key overlaps one of its chords, the chord wins.

HUD tab

Voice controls

Setting	Default	What it controls
Disable Voice Controls HUD	Off	Hides the microphone, speaker, deafen, and radio controls without disabling their keyboard shortcuts or the Jailor unmute action.
Controls Layout	Vertical	Places the microphone, speaker, and role controls vertically or horizontally.
Button Position X / Y	99% / 10%	Moves the voice controls around the screen.
Button Scale	130%	Changes the size of the voice HUD buttons.
Mute / Deafen Status Reminder	On	Keeps a small persistent reminder visible while muted or deafened.
Voice Connection Status	On	Shows routine starting, syncing, and player-count progress in the lobby and retry status in any phase. Turn it off to hide all connection-progress messages; separate device warnings remain available.

Speaking bar

Setting	Default	What it controls
Disable Speaking Bar	Off	Hides the speaking bar and its dependent layout, appearance, and preview settings.
Show All Players	Off	Keeps a stable slot for every connected player instead of showing only current speakers.
Live Preview	Off	Moves the settings panel aside and shows an isolated 15-player preview while you edit. It turns itself off when you close settings, leave the HUD tab, or restart the game.
Speaking Bar Position	Top Middle	Chooses a top, middle-side, or bottom screen preset.
Side Layout	Single Lane	Uses one lane or wrapped columns for left/right presets. Center presets wrap automatically.
Speaking Bar Name Position	Auto	Places names inside the screen automatically, or forces Bottom, Top, Left, or Right.
Speaking Bar Scale	100%	Changes the size of icons and names from 50% to 225%.
Speaking Bar Backdrop	On	Shows a translucent backdrop behind the speaking bar.
Speaking Bar Manual Layout	Off	Replaces the preset with manual layout, facing, and X/Y controls.

Manual layout adds Speaking Bar Layout (Horizontal by default), Avatar Facing (Right by default), and Speaking Bar X / Y controls ranging from 0% to 100% (50% / 85% by default).

Side Layout starts as Single Lane. The fresh guided setup selects Wrapped; at the default Top Middle preset, both produce the same automatically wrapped center layout.

Meeting and role UI

• Meeting Speaking Overlay normally adds a colored glow to the real speaker's public meeting card. Task-world disguises, concealment, and blindness do not change it once the meeting publicly reveals identities; compatible mod privacy rules can still hide or reattribute the indicator. It is on by default.
• Jail Unmute Placement puts the Jailor's temporary unmute control on either the Voice HUD or the jailed player's meeting card. Meeting Card is the default.

Advanced tab

• First-Time Setup > Run Setup Again reopens the guided Welcome, Audio, Controls, HUD, and Review flow. Existing settings are kept unless you finish with changes. The Controls step can allow desktop keybinds while chat is open. The HUD step exposes Hide controls, Hide connection status, Hide speaking bar, and Hide meeting overlay; hiding the speaking bar hides its preset picker and live preview.
• Show Fake 15 Players fills the speaking bar with a test roster for layout troubleshooting. It resets off on every game launch.
• Diagnostics writes detailed voice and microphone-calibration logs. It resets off on launch; leave it off unless you are investigating a problem.

During guided setup, Use existing settings keeps every current value and marks onboarding complete without applying the draft choices.

Player volume mixer

Press Shift+B to open Player Volumes. Each other player has a persistent local slider from 0% to 200%, a reset-to-100% action, and a live speaking meter. These adjustments affect only what you hear.

In-game controls

Desktop

• Push to talk (C) transmits only while held when Mic Mode is Push To Talk.
• Push to Mute (unbound) temporarily mutes the microphone while held and restores the prior mute state when released.
• Team radio (V) transmits on the selected eligible team channel; Cycle (G) changes channel.
• Refresh voice (F7) rebuilds only your local voice session and has a 10-second cooldown.
• Deafen (Shift+N) mutes Perfect Comms playback and pauses your microphone transmission until you undeafen.

Android

The Android Voice Settings panel contains Audio, Devices, HUD, and Advanced tabs. It uses the in-game touch buttons instead of desktop keybinds:

• In Open Mic mode, tap the microphone button to mute or unmute.
• In Push To Talk mode, hold the microphone button while speaking and release it to stop.
• When Team Radio is available, tap its button to change channel or hold it to transmit.
• Tap the speaker button to deafen or undeafen. Deafening mutes playback and pauses microphone transmission.

See also: Installing Perfect Comms · Host Settings